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acousticks

acousticks is the obsolete form of acoustics.

Meaning of acoustics

Noun

acoustics (uncountable)

  1. The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws.
    • "Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very consderable branch of physics, and one which has been cultivated from the earliest ages.1831, John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green: Paternoster Row, and John Taylor, Upper Gower Street, page 248
  2. The properties of a space that affect how sound carries.
    • The acoustics in the opera house gave the whole concert a spooky sound.

Questions about acousticks

What is acousticks the obsolete form of?
Acousticks is the obsolete form of acoustics.

Words near acousticks in the dictionary

  1. acoustical engineering
  2. acoustically
  3. acoustician
  4. acousticians
  5. acoustick
  6. acousticks
  7. acousticky
  8. acousticly
  9. acousticness
  10. acousticofacial
  11. acousticolateral

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